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Sharon Krause works in the area of political theory. She has research interests in classical and contemporary liberalism; democratic theory; theories of freedom; the history of political thought; 18th-century studies (especially Hume and Montesquieu); political judgment and deliberative democracy; passions and politics; and feminism and political theory.
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Sharon Krause is Professor of Political Science. She is the author of Liberalism with Honor (Harvard University Press, 2002) and Civil Passions: Moral Sentiment and Democratic Deliberation (Princeton University Press, 2008), as well as numerous articles on topics in classical and contemporary liberalism ranging from Hume and Montesquieu to Simone de Beauvoir and contemporary theories of justice. She received a B.A. from Wellesley College, an M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School, and a Ph.D. in political theory from the Government Department at Harvard University. She taught previously at Harvard University and at Wesleyan University. She has been the recipient of faculty research fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Olin Foundation. Her book Civil Passions won the 2010 Spitz Prize from the Conference for the Study of Political Thought for best book in liberal or democratic theory and the 2009 Alexander George Book Award from the International Society of Political Psychology for best book in political psychology. Her work has appeared in such journals as Political Theory (2004; 2002; 2001), The Review of Politics (2000), Contemporary Political Theory (2005), Philosophy and Social Criticism (2000; 2006), Polity (1999), and History of Political Thought (2003). She is currently at work on a book about freedom.
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